The South Beach diet consists of three phases to help people lose weight. What you eat during those phases helps with the wieght loss process. If you visit the South Beach Diet website, there are 30 recipes available sp people can get an idea of what types of foods are eaten. If you register to become a member then you can get over 1,000 recipes. Some of the recipes included in phase one are an asparagus moelet with goat cheese, shrimp stir-fry, steak au poivre, and chocolate meringue kisses. In phase two you can have food like buttermilk waffles with jam, provolone chicken melts, and penne with eggplant.